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I. M. JENSEN.-

CROCHET NEEDLE.

APPLICATION FILED JULYIG. 1917.

1,303,327. Q Patented May 13, 1919.

manners u. JENSEN, or onrcnoo, minors.

CROCHET-NEEDLE Specification of Letters I'a tent.

Patented May'13, 1919.

\ Application filed July 16, 1917. Serial No. 180,865.

' -To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, INGEBORG MARIE JEN- SEN, a citizen of the. United States, and a resident of Chicago, in. the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Crochet- Needles, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact specification.

My invention is concerned wlth hand crochet needles or hooks and is designed to produce a needle of the class described that will be easier to operate and which will do more regular and even work than is customary in hand work, the parts bemg so designed as in effect to control automatically the size of the loop made in its operation and leave it in the correct shape so that the hook carrying the thread for the next loop can be most. readily drawn through it by the operator.

To illustrate my invention, I annex hereto a sheet of drawings, in which the same reference characters are used to desi ate identical parts in all the'figures, of w ich,--

Figures 1 and 2 are a plan view and Side elevation, respectively, of a needle embodying my invention, with the central portion thereof broken away, and

Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6 are cross sections on the lines 33, M, 5- 5 and 66, respectively, of Fig. 2.

In carrying out my invention, I make the body portion apreferably uniform in cross section throughout, and may place a hook I) at each end, preferably reversed. As seen in Fig.6, the body portion a is substantially rectangular in cross section, with the corners rounded off and with its smaller dimen sion at right angles, or substantially so, to the smaller dimension of the flattened hook b, so that the hook will be presented at the proper angle to the thread held in the left hand in the customary manner. The fiattened body portion a by which large needles are directl of the hoo and where the needle is small, so that it is inconvenient to hold it directly by the body portion, I employ a holder cooperating with said flattened body portion,

such for instance as is shown in my apphcation No. 147,885, filed February 10, 1917. The hook I) is connected with the body by a portion a, generally rectangular at all points in cross section, but with rounded corners, and varying in design in cross section, as is clearly indicated by the cross secstright, but preferabl slightly held will control this positionv "tions, as well as b the top-plan sideelevation views. t has the sides 11 and .e converging substantially uniformly from the w1de bod part to the narrow neck of the hook. he bottom f is substantially inclined relative to the axis 0 the upper part of c has two parts g and h incllned from the high point down to the pod a and the neck of the hook b, respec 1ve y.

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It will be noted that the maximum crosssectional area of the connecting part c, as seen 'm Fig. 5, is slightly eater than that of the body a, as seen in 11 important, as it enables\me to accumulate 'g.6,andthisis loops on the body portion, as is desirable in some forms of crocheting, without their bemg so tight on the body ortion a as to bind, so that they can he ran y moved thereon. The location and'size of the high point of thehump or connecting portion a are care fully designed to open upthe loop to the proper extent to draw the thread back through it as the hook reaches after the thread, and the high rectangular shape in cross section also shapes the loop so that it is of the proper design to allow the high,

narrow hook to be drawn back through it, carrying the thread for the new loop. 7 For this pur ose, it will be obvious that the length 0 the part it is important relative to the size of the needle, which as it is thrust forward through the last loo after the thread to form a new loop, shou (1 pass through the last loop until the point of the hump 0 is reached, thus opening up the loop to its maximum extent without any waste or excess movement of the needle.

By use of my novel design of crochet needle or hook, I find that it can be worked much more easily and does more even-and uniform work with less skill on'the'part of the operator than any needles that have been used prior to mine.

While I have shown and described my invention as embodied in the form which I at present consider best adapted to carry out its purposes, it will be understood that it is capable of some slight modifications, and that I do not desire to be limited in the interpretation of the following claims except as may be necessitated by the state of the prior art.

. What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the: United States, i8?

1. A hand crochet hook having a flattened hook connected to the body portion by aconnecting portion that is slightly higher at its highest point than the height of the hook, and which is tapered from said highest point down to the neck of the hook, and which is also tapered at right angles to the first taper from said highest point to said hook, substantially as described.

2. A hand crochet hook having a flattened body portion uniform in cross section, tapering by a connecting portion into a flattened hook, the narrower dimension of which is at right angles to the narrower dimension of the body portion, the thickest part of the connecting portion being thicker than the body portion and taperln from said thickest portion back to the t inner body portion and forward down to the neck of the hook, so that the greatest cross-sectional area of the connecting part shall be equal to or slightly greater than the cross-sectional area of the body portion.

3. A hand crochet hook having a flattened hook with the flattened body portion at right angles thereto, the connection between the neck of the hook and the body portlon being continuously tapered from the greatest width of the body portion to the neck of the hook, While at the right angles thereto is a hump tapered from its hlghest point to the neck of the hook in one direction and down to the thinner body portion in the other.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and afiixed my seal this 10th day of J1ily,'A. D. 1917.

INGEBORG M. JANSEN. [n s] Witness:

JOHN HOWARD MCELROY. 

